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PENGUIN CLASSICS MOBY-DICK ENGLISH EDITION - ...

Herman Melville's masterpiece  one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read   Over a
century and a half after its publication  Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary
classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a
creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of
adventure  more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend  Moby-Dick is a haunting 
mesmerizing  and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable
and enduring characters in literature. Never losing its cultural prescence  Melville's nautical
epic has inspired many films over the years  including the film adaptation of Nathanael
Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea  starring Chris Hemsworth  Cillian Murphy  Ben Wishaw  and
Brendan Gleeson  and directed by Ron Howard. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor 
Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character  faith  and the nature of
perception. This Penguin Classics edition  featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and
notes by Tom Quirk  prints the Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text  approved by
the Center for Scholarly Editions and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA. 
For more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in
the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin Classics represents a global
bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust
the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished
scholars and contemporary authors  as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning
translators.

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